Slumberland
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All team (33)
Short description
Nemo is a young girl who has been living with her father, Peter, by the sea, where he taught her to sail and how to handle rough water. When he disappears, she is sent to live with an uncle she barely knows, and she struggles to adjust to her new home and school. In her dreams she finds a way into Slumberland, a realm of dreams, and meets Flip, a horned creature who claims to have known Peter back when the two of them traveled from dream to dream taking things that belonged to other people. Nemo and Flip set out through Slumberland looking for Peter, hoping she can see her father again and evading the nightmares that pursue them.
Francis Lawrence directed the film, working from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman. It follows Red Sparrow in his filmography and came before The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Marlow Barkley plays Nemo, with Jason Momoa as Flip, Chris O'Dowd as Phillip, Kyle Chandler as Peter, Weruche Opia as Agent Green and India de Beaufort as Ms. Arya; the credited cast numbers 29. Lawrence also produced alongside Jenno Topping and Peter Chernin, and the production cost 35 million dollars.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.7 from around 36,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.3 from roughly 977 votes. A critics' rating of 5.3 from 42 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the comic strip series “Little Nemo in Slumberland” by Winsor McCay, which was published from October 15, 1905, to January 9, 1927. McCay is not mentioned anywhere in the credits.
- Flip’s words, “Sometimes a pig is just a pig,” are a reference to the phrase attributed to Sigmund Freud: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” Literally in the following mise-en-scène, Flip mentions Freud himself.
- The seagull named Bugsy is a reference to the famous gangster Benjamin Siegel, nicknamed “Bugsy,” who was instrumental in transforming Las Vegas into a gambling capital. His story is told in Barry Levinson’s crime drama “Bugsy” (1991).
- In Winsor McCay’s original comics, Flip is depicted as short and stout, with a cigar in his mouth. Overall, he gives the impression of a circus clown. Nemo in the comics is a boy.
- In the film, Agent Green (played by Veruche Opia) realizes that everyone in the Land of Dreams has their own personal nightmare. Nemo’s nightmare involves a giant octopus, which is a reference to Jules Verne’s 1870 novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." The appearance of Kyle Chandler (playing Peter here) is a reference to James Mason, who played Captain Nemo in Richard Fleischer’s science fiction film "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954). Captain Nemo fought a cephalopod nautilus there, not an octopus.
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